If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The strong economy means there is fiscal firepower and we need to use that to show people the benefits of the free-market… — Matt Hancock Copy Share Image
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
As I constantly remind Canadians, there isnt really a Canadian economy anymore. It is a global economy. — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
No economic measure has more value for a nation than investing in a clean & sustainable low carbon future — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“[Capitalism assumed] that from the beginning all men are equal. If that were so everyone would be equipped with the same working… — Knut Wicksell Copy Share Image
This is a guy [Steven Lerner] who believes, for example, that Reaganomics or trickle-down economics means, "The rich got rich by stealing… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Equality of economic opportunity, in the context of private property, means equality of opportunity for the millions of capital-less households of today… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
“An entrepreneurial economy is what made America great. People didn’t come to settle the country several hundred years ago for all the… — Chris Lutz Copy Share Image
“In a world where the great questions have been solved and geopolitics has been subordinated to economics, humanity will look a lot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Speculators at megabanks and investment firms such as Goldman Sachs are not, in a strict sense, capitalists. They do not make money… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“In principle the human productive community may be constituted in either of two ways. First, it may be consciously regulated. Whether its… — Rudolph Hiferding Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
“The problem with gross domestic product is the gross bit. There are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent… — Daniel J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
In order to address world economic imbalances, countries around the world should make joint efforts to adjust their economic structure. — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Black money is a cancer in our economic system, not yet terminal or life-threatening. — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Investments in larger systems of economic, environmental, and social support produce health and support individuals’ quest for well-being.” — Elizabeth H. Bradley Copy Share Image
There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America? — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people instead of an industrial oligarchy — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women. — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
“In economy, invisible hand is a set of wealthy men. It's the puppeteer who's in charge behind the curtain.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Three-quarters of India lives on the edge of the market economy. You can't tell them that only those who can afford water… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather than the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists. — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement… — George Soros Copy Share Image